Simple Desktop Display Manager

SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 and Wayland sessions aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces. To further ease theme creation we provide some premade components like a textbox, a combox etc. There are a few sample themes distributed with SDDM. They can be used as a starting point for new themes. Distributions without pam and systemd will need to put the "sddm" user into the "video" group, otherwise errors regarding GL and drm devices might be experienced. If SDDM INITIAL VT wasn't available, SDDM will use the next available one instead. You can override SDDM INITIAL VT if you want to have a different one if, for example, you were planning on using tty1 for something else. You need to make sure that SDDM user have permissions to read those files. In case you don't want to allow other users to access your $HOME you can use ACLs if your filesystem does support it. Edit /etc/sddm.conf , go to the X11 section and change ServerArguments like this: As an alternative you can edit Xorg configuration xorg.conf , please refer to the Xorg documentation.